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    0 starsmerovingian | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 10 2007 | bush, government, lawsuit
    Supreme Court Rejects CIA Case - TIME

    German guy abducted from Germany by U.S. using CIA's "extraordinary rendition" program and held in Kabul for 4 months where he claims he was tortured. Turns out the CIA got the wrong guy and now he wants $75k in compensation. Supreme Court rejects hearing the case without comment and say "state secrets" would be revealed if either the Justices themselves or the court were given access to the information for which the hearing would be based.

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    Quoted: The state secrets privilege arose from a 1953 Supreme Court ruling that allowed the executive branch to keep secret, even from the court, details about a military plane's fatal crash... Three widows sued to get the accident report after their husbands died aboard a B-29 bomber, but the Air Force refused to release it claiming that the plane was on a secret mission to test new equipment. The high court accepted the argument, but when the report was released decades later there was nothing in it about a secret mission or equipment.

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    3 starsmerovingian | Shared With: Everyone - May 15 2006 | NSA, wiretap, verizon, lawsuit, news
    Verizon stock takes hit on $50 billion lawsuit - May. 15, 2006

    Quoted: Lawsuit asks Verizon and government to end phone snooping and seeks $1,000 for each of phone company's 50 million customers.

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